Elision Quotes

#1. Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on the ground behind them.

Cormac McCarthy

#2. That's quite all right, I said. Sfumato, that was what the painters called it; a blurring or elision of the lines, the kind Leonardo had used to give his Mona Lisa her beguiling flux.

Paul Murray

#3. I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

David Attenborough

#5. In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller

#6. Deal with people from whom you can learn

Baltasar Gracian

#7. Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds of my normal existence and familiarise myself with life and the world at large.

Walter Moers